Housewifery \House"wif`er*y\, n. The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
So what if Eve, who had dreamed of being a torch singer, grew so bored by the drudgery of suburban housewifery that she would throw plates against the wall to remind herself she was alive?
Mrs. Reagan was hostess, he wrote, but Mrs. Gorbachev "did not confine herself, as most other wives of heads of state and government did in such meetings, to cross-chat with Mrs. Reagan on palace housewifery and other harmless subjects.